Author: Mick Hartley

aTabaro/status/1954428652872933393″>Izabella Tabarovsky: "What I like about this video is how Jonathan Greenblatt refuses to concede that antizionists have a right to redefine words and concepts as they please. They don’t — and we shouldn’t let them."

Boston Children’s Hospital wants you to forget they were proud of poisoning vulnerable children with puberty blockers & cross sex hormones & cutting off their healthy body parts in their marketing videos. Thank you to @BillboardChris for exposing these. Here are all of them.🧵 pic.twitter.com/MYUbcXoAst

— January Littlejohn (@JanuaryDoNoHarm) August 8, 2025

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Plenty more to see in the thread. Lovely kind doctors talking about vaginoplasty, surgically removing female body parts, and all the other delights of "gender-affirming care" for kiddies. 

Kathleen Stock:

Nice colours, bright primary school teacher voices, soothing music, euphemistic descriptions of removing children's healthy reproductive organs.

"People who are getting gender-affirming hysterectomies do not have to have their ovaries removed" (coy smile, reassuring little headshake). Well strictly speaking, Frances, they don't have to have hysterectomies either because there is absolutely nothing wrong with their wombs.

Good to keep these, as a reminder of the gender madness…

and that trans people cannot take part in women’s sport. If the EHRC were to publish such guidance, it would be wrong.

Trans women are welcome in single-sex spaces, just not in those for women. Trans women can play sport, just not in the women’s category. Activists claim that trans people are banned from various organisations and activities, that they have been taken out of the Equality Act and that their existence is under threat. Misinformation like this feeds that narrative, to the detriment of us all, and particularly to women who are arguing for safety and fairness across the board.
Ursula Doyle
London SW16

40px”>The difference in headlines is all-important. The first example suggests a singling out of trans women, targeting them for exclusion merely for being trans. The second simply states that female-only spaces are to be female-only in more than just name.

It's the way that "trans" has been presented as the new "gay" – a persecuted minority who form the latest in the progressive list of victims to be rescued from the prejudices of the past. Noting that we're talking here about men pretending to be women, and insisting on their right to access women-only spaces, somehow robs them of their magic.

At the heart of it all is the miscasting of members of a dominant group (males) as vulnerable victims of members of a subordinate group (females). In academic articles, Stonewall training sessions, books, and newspaper think pieces, something very justifiable and ordinary — women’s fear of male violence and right to privacy — has been recast as privileged, bigoted “cis” women’s paranoia about anyone who is different.

How deeply ingrained this narrative has become was seen recently in the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal. Dr Beth Upton, a male employee who failed to respect Peggie’s need for a female-only changing room, ought to have been seen as precisely the kind of man who creates the need for such spaces. Instead Upton’s colleagues and employer rushed to portray Peggie as the aggressor.

To many people, it is obvious how wrong this is. There is nothing different or boundary-shattering about the likes of Upton. Nonetheless, the past decade has seen a certain class of people embrace the idea that some male people are in fact vulnerable women. The law may have been clarified, but it will be a long time before such people stop insisting that the law is both confusing and a gross violation of human rights.

An impassioned piece from Philipp Peyman Engel, editor-in-chief of Germany’s most important Jewish newspaper the Jüdische Allgemeine, at the JC:

Did you know that Israel has delivered around 34,000 tonnes of aid into the Gaza Strip this month alone to help feed the Palestinian civilian population? Did you know that the US agency “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” distributes several million meals per day? Did you know that just the week before last, Israel sent over 600 truckloads of goods into Gaza?

Did you know that hundreds of tonnes of aid have been rotting in the sun on the Gazan side of the border because the UN and other organisations simply weren’t collecting them, even as those same organisations loudly accuse Israel of starving Gaza’s population? Did you know that Egypt has almost completely sealed its border with Gaza? Did you know that many of the shocking images of emaciated Palestinian children circulating online and in mainstream media show children suffering from incurable diseases?

Did you know that Israel is the only country in history to deliver humanitarian aid to the civilians of a territory that attacked it, holds its citizens hostage, and continues to launch rockets – knowing full well that the aggressors, Hamas, divert some of that aid for war?

Anyone relying primarily on Western media, including in my own country, Germany, would almost certainly answer most of these questions with a resounding “no”. Worse still, they might view the questions themselves as an attempt to downplay or even deny the suffering in Gaza – which they are not.

Let’s be clear: the suffering in Gaza is real. And both the international community and Israel must do more – everything possible – to end that suffering as swiftly as possible.

At the same time, everything stated above is factually accurate. While Israel may be on the verge of defeating Hamas militarily, it has long since lost the war of images and information – aided and abetted by the failure of Western journalists and politicians. As Ulf Poschardt, editor of the German daily Die Welt, recently observed: the West is being poisoned – above all by the media’s growing acceptance of Hamas propaganda. The accusation – or rather, the lie – that Israel is starving Palestinians or committing genocide has now become mainstream.

Meanwhile antisemitism in Europe escalates to levels not seen since the 1930s.

The essayist, resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor Jean Améry once observed that modern antisemitism no longer presents itself as such. On the contrary, when challenged, it denies its nature, claiming: “I’m not antisemitic – I’m just anti-Zionist.” Today, even that fig leaf is gone. Now everything is allowed. All barriers have collapsed. Jew-hatred is now expressed openly and without shame.

Europe is currently being swept by a storm of antisemitism more intense than anything seen in decades. Antisemitic incidents are skyrocketing. More and more Jews in Berlin are considering emigration. In Austria, Jews are being thrown out of restaurants and campsites simply for being Israeli. In France, a rabbi is beaten. In Spain, Jewish teens are forced off a plane – for singing in Hebrew.

“Resist the beginnings”? Too late. Instead, we hear: “But international law!” “But the supposed genocide in Gaza!” Enough is enough. This is no longer tolerable.

ge and intimidation to try to bring about an end to immigration, similar support would not be forthcoming from the people now supporting Palestine Action. This is a case of the ends being seen to justify the means: which is, ironically, the logic that terrorists have used for decades.

So many organisations have delayed following the law about women-only spaces by saying they were waiting for guidance. Well, now they're getting it:

Schools, hospitals, leisure centres and cinemas will be told to ban trans women from using single-sex spaces including lavatories and changing rooms under equalities guidance to be submitted to ministers this month.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is understood to have rejected demands from campaigners to water down rules that would restrict the ability of trans people to access services of their chosen gender.

The statutory guidance will spell out that transgender competitors can be excluded from single-sex sporting competitions and that it would be reasonable for a woman to object to the presence of a transgender woman if she will be getting undressed or in a vulnerable situation.

The guidance applies to any organisation that provides services to the public.

Clear enough?

Shops and gyms will be included in its scope but the guidance also extends to government departments, the NHS and prisons. It covers private organisations or charities if they are providing a public service, for example a private care home providing care on behalf of a council.

The EHRC will submit its updated guidance to Bridget Phillipson, the women and equalities minister, before the end of the month. It is believed Phillipson will approve the guidance as long as it is in line with the law. It will then be laid before parliament.

culinising. So how does that fit for a person who identifies as non-binary?”

It doesn't. It's all nonsense.

Those who do not conform to male or female categories have become “more difficult to manage” because of the lack of guidance and NHS pathways for them, another member of the youth team told the review.

“Over the last ten years, obviously there’s been a big increase in the number of people presenting [with] gender non-conforming identities … we’ve really struggled to think about how we deal with that in a fair way,” the staff member said.

Over the last three years SNP ministers have spent £9 million on gender identity healthcare and the review was commissioned to assess the impact on services. A total of £3.6 million was apportioned to lead to improvements.

One consultant who has worked in gender healthcare told The Times they had encountered patients who shifted genders depending on how they felt on different days. “We have got into a position where we are enabling people to deny reality and we have reinforced delusional behaviours,” the consultant said.

Well yes. Exactly. And who's behind all this?

According to the review the Scottish government funding had seen improvements to staffing and “deepened collaborations with LGBT Youth Scotland”. Earlier this year the Scottish Conservatives called for all public funding to be withdrawn from this charity after concerns were raised that it was “normalising” self-harm. The Scottish Charity Regulator investigated fears about its stance on cutting with blades but was satisfied action had been taken to address any issues.

Of course. LGBT Youth Scotland. A reminder, from Janice Turner last year:

In 2009 eight men were convicted of running the most depraved child sex ring in Scottish history. Besides sharing the worst categories of dark web paedophile abuse, they fantasised about gaining access to a real child.

One of them, James Rennie, was trusted to babysit his godson, the child of university friends. So, starting when the boy was three months old, Rennie filmed himself sexually abusing the child then shared videos with the other men, even suggesting it would be “hotter” if they came along to join in. Rennie, who was given a life sentence, was the head of LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS), joining the charity in 1997 and becoming chief executive in 2003. Rennie’s trial heard that he often accessed his special sex ring Hotmail account “kplover” (kiddy porn lover) at work.

You’d expect the Scottish Charity Regulator to launch an inquiry to ascertain whether Rennie had access to vulnerable young people, or how being led for years by a predatory paedophile had affected office culture and safeguarding. But it did not. Nor did the police forces that had exposed the sex ring investigate LGBTYS. Both accepted its internal investigation which concluded that everything was fine.

Even more extraordinary, seven months after Rennie was jailed, BBC Children in Need decided to award, for the first time, a grant of £24,000 to LGBTYS. The charity turns down 90 per cent of good causes that apply for funding, yet money raised by BBC viewers was given to a charity whose outgoing chief executive sexually abused a baby….

I want to be on-the-record and crystal clear. This is a disastrous policy that will do vastly more harm than good.

Watch as tens of thousands of Illinois kids get shoved into the mental health funnel and convinced they are sick. Many or most of which will be false positives. https://t.co/BjOhi3YIuK

— Abigail Shrier (@AbigailShrier) August 7, 2025

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The Pritzkers are one of the wealthiest families in America. JB's cousin is Jennifer (born James) Pritzker, "the first and only openly transgender billionaire", and a leading advocate of transgenderism – what Jennifer Bilek prefers to call "synthetic sex identities".

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This terrible law will be used to ask every child attending a public school pseudoscientific questions about their "gender identity" that's going to confuse a lot of otherwise normal children and flag them to visit with a "gender specialist." https://t.co/c15wyJ9RV0

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) August 7, 2025

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Ah yes.

Britain's homelessness minister increased the rent on a house she owns by hundreds of pounds, allegedly "within weeks" of the previous tenants' contract ending.

The i Paper, external reported that four tenants who rented a house owned by Rushanara Ali in East London were sent an email last November giving them four months' notice that their lease would not be renewed.

It says the property was re-listed shortly after the tenants moved out, at a rent that was £700 a month higher.

Ali is Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Homelessness and Rough Sleeping. A spokesman said: "Rushanara takes her responsibilities seriously and complied with all relevant legal requirements."

Update: She's resigned. Remaining in post would be a "distraction from the ambitious work of this government".